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SUMMARY:Artists & Community Conversation Series- Juan William Chavez\, Dr. Jarrod Dortch and David Kirkland
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first installment of this four part series developed with artists and neighbors who are doing work related to or influencing our thinking with the Artist and Public Life affordable artist housing residency in our neighborhood on the near Southside of Indianapolis.\nThis episode will include Juan William Chávez artist\, activist and director of Northside Workshop\, APLR artist\, Dr. Jarrod Dortch and Chef David Kirkland.\n\nE-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required to receive the Zoom link.\n\nMade possible by PNC Bank.\n\nAbout Juan William Chávez\nJuan William Chávez is an artist\, activist and director of Northside Workshop. His studio practice focuses on sculpting space within urban ecosystems through partnerships and collaborations as a way to address social and environmental issues. His work includes public sculptures\, multimedia installations\, paintings\, drawings\, and unconventional forms of beekeeping and agriculture. His exhibitions focus on themes of the urban environment\, ecology\, sustainability\, craft/labor\, activism\, identity and archaeology of place. Chavez has exhibited at ArtPace\, Van Abbemuseum\, McColl Center for Art\, Tube Factory Artspace\, 21c Museum Hotel\, Laumeier Sculpture Park\, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Currently Chavez’s work was included in El Museo’s survey of contemporary Latinx art\, ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21. His interdisciplinary approach to art has gained the attention and support of prestigious institutions like the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, Creative Capital\, Graham Foundation\, ArtPlace America\, Andy Warhol Foundation\, and Art Matters Foundation. Chávez holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\nRead More: https://juanwilliamchavez.com/home.html\n\nAbout Chef David Kirkland\nDavid Kirkland\, the owner and executive chef of Turn Restaurant and David Kirkland Catering\, believes food and music brings people together. He began his career in the early-1990’s\, bouncing from the Café at St. Louis Art Museum (Catering St. Louis) to Frazier’s Brown Bag\, and then Venice Café. Kirkland learned everything he could from some of the city’s best. In 1996\, he moved to San Francisco and began focusing on his music interests\, becoming a resident DJ at several clubs throughout the city. However\, he never lost his love for the culinary arts\, cooking for friends and family and exploring the area’s now famous farm-to-table approach to food. After moving back to St. Louis\, Kirkland returned to the kitchen with a mission\, taking the helm at Café Osage in 2007. He opened Turn Restaurant and David Kirkland Catering in Spring of 2016.\nRead More https://www.stlmag.com/…/hot-seat-a-conversation-with…/\n\nAbout Dr. Jarrod Dortch\nDr. Jarrod Nicholas Dortch is a Professor of Communication at Ivy Tech Community College in Muncie\, Indiana. He also serves as the owner and operator of Solful Gardens\, a local urban agriculture startup specializing in bringing Fresh.Urban.Natural produce to clients’ properties and working with community gardens. He has been affiliated with Big Car as a Community Artist and as Community Gardener at the Tube Factory artspace. He is currently working with Listen Hear and WQRT 99.1 FM. He enjoys bringing together art\, education\, and gardening to help to enrich the experiences of communities and their denizens.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/artists-community-conversation-series-juan-william-chavez-dr-jarrod-dortch-and-david-kirkland/
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SUMMARY:Artists & Community Speaker Series with Daniel Gray-Kontar\, Raymond Bobgan\, and Uzuri Asad
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second installment of this four part series developed with artists and neighbors who are doing work related to or influencing our thinking with the Artist and Public Life affordable artist housing residency in our neighborhood on the near Southside of Indianapolis.\nThis episode will include Executive Artistic Director of Twelve Literary Arts Daniel Gray-Kontar\, Executive Artistic Director of the Cleveland Public Theater Raymond Bobgan\, and APLR artist Uzuri Asad.\n\nE-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required for the Zoom link.\n\nMade possible by PNC Bank.\n\nAbout Daniel Gray-Kontar\nDaniel Gray-Kontar is a poet\, teacher\, youth mentor\, rapper\, journalist\, and education activist. He has worked as an advocate for social transformation in the city of Cleveland for more than 25 years. Gray-Kontar is an education consultant for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; writer-in-residence at MOCA Cleveland; the former chair of the Literary Arts Department at the Cleveland School of the Arts; and a former graduate school fellow at UC Berkeley’s College of Education. His work in arts education has been showcased on PBS Newshour\, The UK Guardian\, NPR\, and The Christian Science Monitor\, among other news media outlets. Gray-Kontar has lectured at universities\, public schools\, arts organizations and scholarly conferences across the US. His Ted Talk discussing youth leadership in public school education has affected the ways public school administrators think about the inclusion of youth and their families in the process of re-making school cultures and curricula.\n\nAbout Uzuri Asad\nOriginally from Cleveland\, Ohio\, Uzuri Asad now lives and works in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Indianapolis as part of Big Car Collaborative’s Artist in Public Life Residency program. She’s a singer\, dancer\, choreographer\, and jewelry-maker. Formally trained in West African dance and contemporary movement\, her art is guided by lived experiences and her cultural upbringing. Her style is a unique blend of fluid\, free flowing\, yet intentional movements. For Asad\, dance is a sacred means of individual expression that lives and breathes through her.
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